Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Texas Medical School, Houston, TX 77225-0708, USA. Steven.J.Norris@uth.tmc.edu
The proteome of the spirochete bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, the tick-borne agent of Lyme disease, has been characterized by two different approaches using mass spectrometry, providing a launching point for future studies on the dramatic changes in protein expression that occur during transmission of the bacterium between ticks and mammals.